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ATI Rage 128 Pro driver for Windows 98 - Velocity Drivers

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ATI Rage 128 Pro

Velocity9x: Verified working

Tested on a Rage Fury Pro. Velocity9x drives its CCE command engine for Direct3D, OpenGL and Glide, with DirectDraw and page flips on the engine.

Specification
Manufacturer
AMD / ATI
Chip
Rage 128 Pro
Family
ATI Rage 128
3D engine
Rage 128 (CCE)
Bus
AGP
PCI ID
1002:5046
Velocity9x · Windows 98 SEVerified working

Package

ati

Tested on

One Rage Fury Pro, 32 MiB AGP (16 MiB used), in a Pentium III machine.

Acceleration by interface

2D / DirectDraw
Tested
DirectDraw, flips
Direct3D
Tested
Direct3D 8
Not run
OpenGL
Tested
Two texture units
No
Glide
Tested
ATI 3DCIF
Not run

What has been tested

Direct3D at 16 and 32 bpp with 16-bit Z, OpenGL, Glide 2 and 3; DirectDraw and page flips on the engine; GDI by the CPU. 3DMark 2000, Half-Life (Direct3D and OpenGL) and Diablo II (Glide).

Known issues

  • Older, not rerun since: 3DMark 2000 hung once in two runs.

Tested games and benchmarks

TitleAPIResultVersion
Half-LifeDirect3D and OpenGL34.4 fps Direct3D (ATI’s driver 59.2); OpenGL 14.1 (ATI’s 70.1)0.28.0
Diablo IIGlideShareware demo, to the town—
3DMark 2000Direct3DRuns; hung once in two runs (older)—
Half-Life on ATI Rage 128 Profps

Direct3D · timedemo mwd5

  1. ATI Rage 128 Pro
    Pentium III · 640x480 · v0.28.0
    34.4 fps
    vendor 59.2
    Test setup and source
    Machine / CPU
    Pentium III
    Resolution
    640x480
    Driver version
    0.28.0

    Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date, vendor driver version.

    Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

OpenGL · timedemo mwd5 (-gl)

  1. ATI Rage 128 Pro
    Pentium III · 640x480 · v0.28.0
    14.1 fps
    vendor 70.1
    Test setup and source
    Machine / CPU
    Pentium III
    Resolution
    640x480
    Driver version
    0.28.0

    Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date, vendor driver version.

    Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ. Each workload has its own scale. Amber marker: the vendor’s own driver on the same machine.

Install on Windows 98

  1. Take a cold backup and confirm you can reach Safe Mode.
  2. Download the ati package(ATI Mach64 / Rage and AMD Radeon).
  3. Device Manager → Display adapters → Update Driver → Have Disk, over the top of the current driver.
  4. Shut down fully, then cold-start once.

Download velocity9x-0.48.0-ati.zipFull install guide